Macmillan Authors

We are proud to work with accomplished
teachers and scholars who know how tobring their ideas to the classroom in
innovative and engaging ways. Our author page features brief bios and videos of many of the authors on our list.

Nancy Sommers

composition • writing • responding
to student writing

Gail Kern Paster

James Phelan

James Phelan is a professor of English and chair of the English department at the Ohio State University. He is editor of the award-winning journal Narrative, and has written and edited several books on literary theory, including Worlds from Words (1981), Reading People, Reading Plots (1989), and Narrative as Rhetoric (1996), and has published a memoir of teaching literature in the academy, Beyond the Tenure Track (1991). With Gerald Graff, he is coeditor of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Case Study in Critical Controversy (1995).